How are websites and web applications converted into mobile applications?

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Many websites and web applications like Youtube, social networks, e-commerces and news sites have their versions in mobile apps, and their data are "Synchronized" (for example, when I put a video on the Youtube site the video will also be available in the app).

The question is: how is the mobile application of a website/web application made? Is it made from scratch, totally separate from the website or converted in any way? If it is done separately, is it done as a hybrid or native app? And how this "Data Sync and Updates" is done (just a brief idea of how this is done)?

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    Either you implement an application on the platform you want, or you use one of the websites you convert. There are several. But I think they just use Webviews to open the site inside the app

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Typically, large companies develop native apps. The back-end of the app is the same as the site, so when you post a video on the youtube site, it also appears in the app. That’s what the webservices. Mark Zuckerberg, said that insisting too much on HTML instead of native development was a big mistake.

There is no such conversion itself, what some companies do is run the site inside a web view in an app, Globo does this, for example. Google, on the other hand, developed a native youtube app with the same features of the site, which gives the impression that it was "automatically generated", but was not.

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